Dear all When I try to drag this EA to EURUSD M5 chart or choose "Attach to a chart" command, MT4 just gave me no response. Does anybody know why? Thanks for your kind help! wing int old_tt1, old_tt2, old_tt3;double old_bid1, old_bid2, old_bid3;datetime time, time1;int signal_up;int...

Hello, I was thinking if there is a way to code something like : 1st position is open at 1.3000 2nd position must be open only when the price reach 1.3004 3rd position only at 1.3008 I was thinking to use: "case 1 at 1.3001 no order send with comparedoubles1" "case 2...

Hello everyone, In one part of my EA I need to compare the local PC's date with the broker's server date, i.e. if ( DateLocal==Day()) { bla bla... How can the PC's date be queried for this (per tick)? I don't know of a standard MQL4 function for this. Perhaps, some sort of a dll that can be used...

I download history data but some data seems missing. Data with any timeperiod misses the records between Dec 19, 2012 and Mar 14, 2013. Take M1 for example, the previous bar is Dec 18, 2012 10:45 and the next bar is Mar 15, 2013 05:17. What's the problem?

Hi Everyone, I am just getting started in MT4 and wrote a short function. Lots of errors on brackets and other. Any help would be great! Thanks if BaseTradeOpen(OrderSymbol(), MagicNumberLong, Long) && SubsignalTradeOpen(OrderSymbol(), MagicNumberLong, Long) { //OrderSelect(BuySubsignal...

Hello, I have written EA for my client. i am not expert. i like to secure the code by account number. eg: the EA should run with only this account number:"111111" and demo. if they try other account which should show warning message. Please advice the coding to insert on my coding. Thank you in...

I am writing a program that populates a matrix in MQL4 via iClose() and then passes the matrix to R. The data that R is receiving is incorrect for all currency pairs. I have gone over the code 1000 times and cannot figure it out. Anyone else ever experienced iClose() passing bad values? Here is the...

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Hello all, When iCustom is repeated called by an indicator (with different parameters each time), is there any performance benefit to be had by incorporating the external indicator, rather than making these repeated iCustom calls? The procession of "Custom Indicator xxxxxx: loaded successfully" and...

I have created an indicator where there are 4 extern values: MAE1, MAE2, MAE3, MAE4 Is there a function to place these in numerical order from lowest to highest so that MA1 contains the lowest MAE1-4, MA2 contains the next lowest, etc? Seems that the code to do that by hand would be rather intense.

Hi I have three question, but they are all related to the same issue. I have an indicator that creates an array with some data, and I'd like to import all the data to my EA, i.e. not only for one candle, but the whole array, i.e. something like Testing_iCustom = iCustom(NULL, 0, "ABCD", 2, 4, 8, 16...

Hello Guys, I need your help to modify a parameter of my strategy. My strategy is composed in 3 indicators which don't match in the same time. I would like to memorize the sense given by the arrow few candles ago : //---Arrows double MHLong = iCustom(NULL,0,"Arrows",1000,1,0); double...

Hi, I am wrong here, but I can't login and post in the mql5-forum. If I click on the login-link (with the url: https://www.mql5.com/en/auth_login) my FF 20.0.1 just opens https://www.mql5.com/en. Here I don't have any fields to enter id and pwd. Even if I enter the https url directly I am redirected...

Hello , I am poor at Programming , that's why i need your help in coding Its about the bollinger bands , it is known that bollinger bands width increases when the price is trending and decreases when the price is ranging (flat) . Actually i want the opposite , i want the width to increase when...

Hi, I tried searching Google and this forum but could not find the solution. I want to permanently remove old objects from reappearing in charts on my MT4 installations. I run all 28 major/cross pairs, and each one has from 4 to nearly a hundred object entries from EA's that I have not used in...

Hi I would like to get this towork in Metratrader 4 can anyone help? Basically I want to back testand mark the chart with an x when the conditions are meet. Thank You, Raymond Minardi rminardi1@verizon.net if iMA(1,MODE_EMA,0) > iMA(1,MODE_EMA,2) then Begin SetArrow(CurTime,Bid...

Hi all I'm new to MQL. I apologise in advance if I'm asking a question that has probably been answered lots of times already, I have looked around on the forum trying to find what I need. Simply, I'd like a snippet of code the calculates MACD and the Signal properly using EMA not the function built...

I am working on making my EA able to look to see if a trend has already started for a currency pair (same EA is covering multiple currency pairs) when an order closes. From what I have read from the book, searched in this forum, and google searching the only thing I can find is that we can only...

Hi, I'm planning to use iBars function in my EA but the code will be kind of long and would like to know if the iBars will work correctly in backtests before I implement. I think it didn't work when I tried it but I'm not sure. Thanks